Why China is Running Out of Water

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China is currently facing its worst drought in more than 60 years. The country's reservoirs are drying up, and its facing severe water shortages. All of these problems have had a major impact on the country, and have lead to severe water shortages. With an intent to put an end to China's water crisis, the Chinese Government has outlined a $60 Billion Plan to change the distribution of water across the country. Therefore, how will this plan impact China's water crisis, and what are the long term effects of this massive project?
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@ArkiveYT Год назад

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@nemo9540 Год назад

Only problem is that they don't really have a great track record of building structures that last beyond 3 years, the 3 gouges damn isn't fairing well now with multiple structural issues not to mention the many ghost cities that are crumbling to pieces.

@bunyavissuthisorn5909 Год назад

... Three gorges dam. ......

@idobadada3201 Год назад

The only problem is that what you said.

@miaomiaotoo Год назад

😂clearly you don’t know what you’re talking about

@idobadada3201 Год назад

@@miaomiaotoo come on now we talkin about communist China

@WNDRNRDER Год назад

Remind me a game called Infra, it perfectly represents China construction

@eddieleong6490 Год назад

North China will soon import water from the abundant water-rich land of Eastern Russia. If they can import oil, it is even easier to dig canals. Money buys water that is now flowing to the oceans from Siberia.

@hardleecure Год назад

that's only if they can force russia to do so. russia banned china from pumping water from lake baikal. depends how desperate putin is to kill off the ukrainians

@barrywilliams991 Год назад

Only problem is that it loses huge amounts of water to evaporation, the overall flow velocity is very slow limiting it's volume delivery and the slow movement is causing severe siltation along most of the route. Essentially, a massive amount of maintainence will be needed to deal with the silt, it will require large amounts of electricity and the water will be 5x more expensive. The project is already a failure.

@mabuhayproductionltd3627 Год назад

And very poluted

@mur4s4m3 4 месяца назад

Don't forget it merely provides 25% of actual needs for the served areas (cf. PolyMatter)

@dennyli9339 Год назад

Retaining surface water is still a big problem....evaporation is the biggest challenge.... Not until there is a technological break through, fresh water is still a problem....

@t-rex4211 Год назад

Ah but if you stop the evaporation then there’ll be less rain

@dennyli9339 Год назад

@@t-rex4211 Ocean evaporation

@onba7726 10 месяцев назад

@@t-rex4211 The reason OP is say evaporation is a huge issue is because dams increase evaporation rates by both increasing water surface area and slowing water movement (which makes water heat up faster in the sun). China has a massive amount of dams. For years it's also been having massive floods in parts of the country, likely caused by the excessive evaporation. There are floods happen about around now, in fact. China Insights posted a video on it 5 days ago.

@williamludlow3788 10 месяцев назад

I was a teacher in southern China. While there you could not drink the water. That was 25 years ago. I'm sure nothing changed.

@davidcross701 Год назад

Pray for China drought to continue. Pray for Taiwan to stay free.

@jameshara8994 Год назад

"China has no water?" China is collapsing! Oops, no, wait, it's our banking system collapsing!🤣 🤣 🤣

@thesilentone4024 Год назад

Over use of water same with America. Like over development changing the flow of water in streams and rivers making lakes and more are not helping the environment and how the water cycle works. Almost all countries have this problem yes including America and farming definitely needs to change or we will go hungry as we destroyed more forests for farm land at the same time.

@paulvon2378 Год назад

Lake Meade for example. We need global water desalination

@snapon666 Год назад

How much of the problem has been caused by weather modification ?

@mewimi Год назад

They really should focus on changing the way water is used in farms and homes to mitigate the damage being done.

@Alaninbroomfield Год назад

Move all that water? Why not simply move the people?

@ghudbob8613 Год назад

there are 100s of millions of people to move and then house. You'd need jobs, housing, and a way to move all those people. the water is easier.

@hobog Год назад

@@ghudbob8613 No, it's more practical to discourage+penalize excessive water use. However, this is apparently too politically dangerous for the CCP

@1one1won Год назад

Love the fact China is self destructing itself😊

@ksli57 Год назад

Dont you worry, North Korea will destroyed South Korea before it happened!

@Movie_cdrama 9 месяцев назад

Same reason why part of Colorado river and turkey river drying up not just China 😂

@KashmiriIrtazHussein 4 месяца назад

China cut 20M Trees Daily for Chopsticks only in that case India is better atleast we eat by Hands to protect our Nature😊

@4rah46 Год назад

At what cost $$ to the end users? Interesting to see a water quality analysis upon arrival in the North

@twest3686 Год назад

A dam that can't regulate water is not worth a dam.

@pollutingpenguin2146 Год назад

Is the voice an actual human or is he a robot? It sounds off at times

@gavinspiby8304 11 месяцев назад

What a disaster in the making interfering with nature again and again! And again we face serious problems from what we do 😢 My prediction for humanity our time is up

@marethmok5635 Год назад

It needs scientific research for best management of those conflicts use of Natural Water🤙

@MrBoliao98 Год назад

This is why since the Song Dynasty, the south has seen a move towards greater prosperity. The root cause of better water management, and perhaps even desalination and growing the pie would resolve the issue.

@herbertbrazil48 Год назад

They can use SASAKURA ATLAS Fresh Water Generator technology to produce fresh water just Qatar and other Saudi city.

@rogerodle8750 Год назад

A 1000km tunnel? Good luck with that.

@williamedwardhackman4695 Год назад

So the drought in China is worse than here in the USA.

@ChuckN516 Год назад

I thought the video is about the drought in China. Can you make a video about the drought in USA?

@ksli57 Год назад

@@ChuckN516 Have you been living under a rock?

@williamedwardhackman4695 Год назад

@@ChuckN516 Yeah this video is about the drought in China, but I live in the USA not China that's why I'm talking about the United States of America.

@williamedwardhackman4695 Год назад

@@ksli57 I live in California which is one of the largest states in the United States of America.

@bhaaz Год назад

1:44 Make up your mind already: what percentage lives in the north part of the country: 46% or 90%. Cannot be both!

@johndlawlor Год назад

46% of the people live in the North and 54% in the South. He said the 90% is in the North OR East of the country. Basically 90% of the people live along the coast moving South -> North and stretching inland across the northern part of the country. So in the South, roughly 44% of the population is living along the east coast.

@bhaaz Год назад

@@johndlawlor Thanks for the elaboration. It is better this way, but I think using percentages for these data and this way is still fairly confusing. The use of the OR overlap especially, does not really characterize a specific trend or snapshot in this context, just churns out numbers.

@LuisHernandez-tb6we Год назад

So they are sending water up stream 👀?

@markgarin6355 Год назад

No...how will the drought effect this situation... Wasn't this completed already?

@jaeara4191 Год назад

I concur. I've seen footage of the south north water transfer project . No one along the line has access to the water without a lot of money changing hands. Also the water , by the time it gets to Beijing its way too polluted .

@Omer1996E.C Год назад

I just can't understand. If China made a 60$ billion on improving desalination technology, they can make artificial fresh water nearly as cheap as natural ones. Desalination by the us government would be the best, imagine 100$ billion allocated to universities like MIT, I'm pretty sure we'll have, after about 10 years, artificial water that is as cheap as natural ones, transported through pipelines and owned and patented by a corporation that will have contracts with alot of countries and be very profitable

@sleepyjoe4529 Год назад

60 billion dollars for research and developement is a risk with unknown outcomes. Besides, desalaination technology is fine as is (could be better of course), but the main problem is energy to run the process. Until we have nuclear fusion, it is unlikely to be used at a large scale.

@Omer1996E.C Год назад

@@sleepyjoe4529 this is what they should do R&D on, energy cost reduction and efficiency of desalination process. I'm not asking them to make only new desalination things, but to also improve existing technologies

@sleepyjoe4529 Год назад

@@Omer1996E.C they're doing that already -- just not 60 billion dollars worth. It's not one or the other -- they can do R&D in desalination, energy production AND build a water trasnfer tunnel. It's not mutually exclusive. Again, one thing is for certain, having a huge water tunnel across your country means so much flexibility when it comes to other developments in the region along that path so it's a worthwhile investment. And at 60 billion dollars, it really isn't even all that much (for China anyways).

@rootoftheproblem Год назад

One thing they wont do is let the water float on its market value, which is really the solution. They have no idea how to solve the silt problem, which is huge for these glacial rivers. This is a boondoggle just like the other one.

@bunyavissuthisorn5909 Год назад

... Face, it is about face, China may feel uncomfortable to request technological support from U.S. ..... ... China positions itself same level with that of U.S. See COMAC-919, it looks like a brother of Airbus-319. ... ... China is close to Europe. .

@petefluffy7420 Год назад

Are you trying to imply those two dams are the same dam ?

@stoneybakermd1936 10 месяцев назад

the water they do have? is so polluted

@satyricon65 Год назад

The Chinese will design and construct a piss-poor quality aqueduct. Don't take my word for it, even the Three Gorges dam is having structural issues.

@grimmlinn Год назад

This just redirects water of the Yangtze and Mekong away from China's neighbors (Thailand, Vietnam, etc), which is already being decreased by the dams China has built over them and would lead to shortages of water for it's neighbors. Selfishness is the Chinese way, however, and weakening their neighbors is probably a bonus for them.

@rebeccamyott7041 Год назад

Too many dams?????

@rebeccamyott7041 Год назад

Stop growing crops for EXPORT.!!!!!!!!!

@Crashed131963 Год назад

Overpopulated countries have more shortages of everything .

@christinearmington Год назад

Damming the rivers feeding the Ganges in the northwest is disturbing. India and Bangladesh will suffer.

@lydioconception3470 Год назад

Karma

@dennisfrey2057 Год назад

And we should care, why?

@joemango9782 Год назад

😂wait till a big earth quake destroy that reservoir

@manwingchi9156 6 месяцев назад

Not even the same dam

@jeffi854 Год назад

There’s going to be a whole lot of countries that will run out of water and food in 2024

@waynehewett4017 Год назад

If not in 2023

@elmadonor102 Год назад

Oh maybe xi would think to change his mind to be good for god is more powerful

@TheTEXMIKE Год назад

sounds alot like the west coast of the US

@Crashed131963 Год назад

330 million people need less resources than 1.4 billion people. It's simple math.

@alfredkwok9239 Год назад

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@mathewrost Год назад

5 years from now this will all have been pointless .. drought..

@albertorodas6479 Год назад

The collective wests wet dreams

@themastermagicians2745 Месяц назад

Chinese communist party has lost heaven’s mandate 😂🤣🤪

@CuriousEarthMan 11 месяцев назад

Very poorly written piece. Thanks for trying anyway. Some information came through.

@windsong3wong828 Год назад

The Chinese government is amazing. All these infra would help China and it’s population in the long run.

@juhanivaltonen2456 Год назад

Hehee looks like youre sarcastic. If you really mean what you say, im sorry chinese gowernment is most corrupt peace of shit ever seen. It is as incompetent than north korea.